good pink morning! just a few pics of my nervous (hurricane gustav) knitting. below is my pink knitting/crocheting project bag. it's huge and has wonderful pockets for all kinds of things.

my first two projects (after the one from the below post) were these pink and green hats. they only look strange because i put them on cans to take the pictures.

after that, i knitted this one for my niece. she has gorgeous red hair so the blue will look great on her!!
here's another invitation for celie's  party this year-pink again. unfortunately, it's postponed due to hurricane gustav. our parish is under mandatory evacuation starting saturday at 3 p.m.
some more of the entertainment while waiting for weather news.......(check post below)
please visit the other pink posts from beverly's pink saturday!

note added: i will try to visit as many pink posts as possible but i'm sure you understand if i can't get to all of you. so please have a great pink week and think of all of us south coasters!!

what to do when you're waiting for a hurricane that's four days away. (besides knit four hats, so far)

dress up your pets and let your mom take pictures to entertain her blogging friends.

(this is my baby with max's shirt on)



i think my daughter's dog, max, has more clothes than me. they're certainly more cool!! this hurricane has us all in a frenzy. it's ironic that it's the third anniversary of hurricane katrina. there's so many of us in my husband and my family and we keep trying to keep track of where everyone's going. it's really a scary situation. and i don't even want to think about the next one! well, i'll just say my prayers and go to bed-goodnight for now.

i haven't been idle this weekend. finished this adorable little hat from susan anderson's book, itty-bitty hats. i think i could have probably just put five petals on it but it's still pretty cute!
i also finished my little chick quilt. the embroidery pattern is from my mom.

i quilted it with a flower pattern using perle cotton. i think it came out pretty adorable too! i love the colors, so bright and summery.
i also wanted to link to the green kitchen's tutorial on a wrist pincushion. she uses a darling piece of trim. i have a wrist pincushion but i've been known to stab myself using it. this one looks bigger and has a piece of cardboard in it to prevent those types of mishaps.  go  check it out-she hosting a giveaway too!

good morning pink girls! hope ya'll week was filled with pink clouds and not gray. looks like bad weather is heading this way though so maybe pink thoughts will keep it away. my first pink pic is a decorative watering can my daughter bought me for a mother's day gift one year. filling it with huge gerber daisies makes it even happier!!

this angel is from my grandmother and was given to me when i was little. isn't she the sweetest? she's in my pink bathroom but i think i'll redo that room when time allows. i want to do shabby chic.

another sweet thing i have in there is this crazy quilt heart. my older daughter made this in 4th grade for a 4-H project. i simply applied dots where the stitches went with a blue sewing marker that washes out and she followed the dots with my instructions. i think she did a fabulous job! (she was one of those perfectionist even at that age).
so there you have it-my pink posts for the week. thanks to beverly (go visit her and the others) and all the pink girls who brighten each other's week! ya'll come back now, ya' hear!

i'm not a person to complain, especially about things that i have no control over, but life has been quite overwhelming and i (and my family) would really like to have a break. so, after getting home from the breakfast club, i was so pleasantly surprise with not one, but two swap packages!! both gave me a lift that i needed. so thank you to my yahoo inchie group and all the amazing artists there. and...

thanks, abbie for the button floozie swap!! when i saw her note on the outside of the package, i had a sneaky feeling my buttons were from none other than marian, who is my vintage apron swap partner! i loved all the goodies and already know what i'll do with them. stay tuned for some fall funess!

good morning on this pink saturday. i'm sharing a picture today of my pink ginger plant. every year we cut this down completely in the winter and it is so lush the next spring. it seems to grown overnight.

this is a picture of my niece's birthday invite for last year. her mom teaches dancing so she had a ballerina party and cut each invitation out after printing the information. isn't it darling?
a sweet valentine card from one of my best friends. i collect bee "stuff" so this was perfect!!
hope ya'll all have a great pink week. visit everyones posts through how sweet the sound over at beverly's blog. thanks suesue

breakfast club

wednesday morning breakfast was eaten at a little cafe' named demitasse which is fortunately connected to an antique mall.  we had fun posing and browsing and, of course, purchasing things we NEED. 

p.s. not this hat!!

guess what's all wrapped up? yep-it's my vintage apron swap for marian of dreamweaver fame. she creates the most gorgeous woven scarves. she blogs from the land down under(that makes me want to sing!). i hope she likes all her goodies. the swap was hosted by garboodles (who i am so glad decided to keep blogging) who is a multi-talented woman herself.